Behavioral Health Consultant

Northwest Pediatric Center is seeking a Behavioral Health Consultant(BHC) to join our Integrated Behavioral Health Team (IBHT) alongside our long-standing, thriving private group practice of 7 pediatricians and 7 pediatric nurse practitioners in beautiful southwestern Washington. We are a member of the Seattle Children’s Care Network and practice up-to-date, evidence-based medicine. Our practice was founded in 1992 with the goal of providing compassionate, whole person care and we believe strongly in being an encouraging, inclusive workplace where our staff can thrive and excel.

Be part of a caring, respectful, and diverse team where you deliver Behavioral Health services alongside the Primary Care Provider - providing access to behavioral health care to patients in their trusted community Primary Care Clinics - to achieve the best whole-person care and treatment outcomes.

Behavioral health issues account for 20% to 40% of all concerns raised in a primary care visit; “Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH)” is a model of behavioral healthcare that focuses on addressing behavioral health concerns impacting a patient’s overall health, within a primary care office.

Northwest Pediatric Center utilizes an Integrated Behavioral Health Team (IBHT) approach, modeled after the PCBH model. Behavioral Health Consultants (BHCs) use evidence-based, brief interventions to treat mild to moderate concerns that commonly present in primary care offices, such as anxiety, depression, and the management of chronic health conditions such as diabetes. BHC’s work alongside primary care providers, nurses, administrators and other healthcare providers to deliver services in exam rooms through warm hand-offs (unscheduled, impromptu visits) or scheduled visits. The PCBH model uses a population-based approach to improve the general public’s access to appropriate and effective behavioral health services, that might be otherwise lost through the referral process.

• Hours: Monday-Friday, 40 hours/week.
• HRSA and WA state loan repayment site.
• Licensure supervision on site can be provided; if supervision done off-site, opportunity for reimbursement following licensure
• Position pay scale ranges from 75K-90k with associates beginning at 75k.
• Annual CEU budget, raise scale, benefits, and retirement 401K.
• No after-hours/weekend/on call work
• Scheduled one-hour lunch and scheduled documentation time.
• Healthy work/life balance.
• Our main location is in Centralia situated half way between Seattle and Portland along the I-5 corridor.
• For more information, please contact Wendy Skarra, Behavioral Health Director at Northwest Pediatrics at 360-736-6778. Find us online at www.nwpeds.com.

License needed to apply: LMHC, LICSW, LMFT (licensed or associate)

Preferences: Child/Family Therapy, pediatrics training and medical setting experience.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $75,000.00 - $90,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• 401(k) matching
• Dental insurance
• Employee discount
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Parental leave
• Professional development assistance
• Vision insurance

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift

Work setting:

• In-person

Education:

• Master's (Required)

Experience:

• relevant: 1 year (Preferred)

License/Certification:

• Washington (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $75,000 - $90,000